#rand

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#died #eight #father #fells #four

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. ↗

— Chris Ware

#grandmother #had #i #messy #other

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ↗

— Chris Ware

#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#cry #everyone #grandfather #immigrant #ireland

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#am #another #being #earth #fulfilling

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! ↗

— Kerry Washington

#afforded #african-american #college #could #ellis

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#affordable #away #care #choose #education

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#bother #church #go #going #got

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#before #born #church #father #go

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#chance #i #pick #purely #random